For John and Charles Wesley, few issues have been extra very important for either theology and ministry than attentiveness to the Lord’s Supper. however the dedication to the centrality of the Eucharist for Christian lifestyles and perform has waxed and waned, regardless of its value for many Wesleyans.

This publication brings jointly Wesleyan students who search to get well the significance of Holy Communion for theology and ministry. The publication has elements. within the first, best Wesleyan theologians think of the Eucharist in reference to all the significant parts of Christian theology: the doctrine of the Trinity, production, sin, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Church, salvation, and eschatology. within the moment, students think of the connection among the Eucharist and points of Christian existence and ministry: worship, preaching, evangelism, formation, ethics, using funds, pastoral care, prayer), and ecumenism.

Clean study, advancing additional the paintings of diverse students over an outstanding many a long time, issues convincingly to a brand new foundation for explaining the Synoptic challenge: the Gospel of Matthew used to be released in levels. students have lengthy debated the Synoptic Problem--questions approximately why and the way the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke proportion quite a bit universal fabric, and but vary in such a lot of methods.

This anthology of decisions from William Harwood’s technology fiction contains:His Omnipotence Flashman;And Now Heee-ere’s Jesus! The Assassination of Nobody;and so long, Jesus. different FICTION through WILLIAM HARWOODThere Be No solar yet Yahweh,And Jesus Be Him’s Planet. The Autobiography of God. The Magicians: Moses to Merlin.

Such a lot Christians agree we'd like an afternoon of leisure – yet is the Sabbath a vacation or a holy day? What does it particularly suggest to maintain the Sabbath holy? How may still we arrange for it in our houses, saved it in our church buildings, and stay it absolutely in our hearts? Do our attitudes concerning the Sabbath topic to God up to our activities?

The current booklet displays at the lifestyles, paintings, and legacy of an outstanding and enigmatic girl: the thinker and French Jewish mystic Simone Weil. It constitutes a sworn statement so designated that it's most unlikely to disregard. In a Europe the place authoritarian regimes have been dominant and heading, in a sinister demeanour, towards international conflict II, this lady of fragile healthiness yet indomitable spirit denounced the contradictions of the capitalist procedure, the brutality of Nazism, and the ambiguity of bourgeois suggestion.